David Harrison

General CounselChancellor's Office

David Lombard Harrison is General Counsel for the University of North Carolina School
of the Arts. The mission of the General Counsel Office is to facilitate creativity
and innovation at UNCSA, while balancing and preserving opportunities inherent in
risks. The General Counsel fulfills this mission by providing legal and risk management
advice, and higher education counsel, to the Chancellor, Board of Trustees, university
administrators, and faculty and staff who are acting on behalf of UNCSA.

Harrison has an appointment as Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law, teaching Copyright and the Music Industry.

Prior to joining UNCSA, he was Associate Vice President for Legal Affairs, at the
University of North Carolina General Administration (2001-2015).

David is a former law clerk to Justice James H. Brickley in the Michigan Supreme Court,
and partner of a Grand Rapids, Michigan, law firm. He is licensed to practice law
in Michigan and North Carolina, and as a member of the Tribal Bars of the Saginaw-Chippewa
Indian Tribe of Michigan and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indian Tribe.

His board experience includes the Board of Directors of the National Association of
College and University Attorneys, the Triangle Intellectual Property Lawyers Association,
and the Town of Carrboro Human Services Commission.

He has published law review journal articles and papers on various topics, including
intellectual property, music copyright, information technology, social media, online
education, privacy, and research regulations, and gives frequent presentations for
national conferences in these areas.

Harrison has published monthly essays and articles for two national outdoor magazines,
was contributing editor for River Explorer Magazine, a newspaper and magazine cartoonist,
and a performer and composer on a record album.

He is currently playing tenor, baritone, and concert ukulele – remarkably well, mind
you, but still, the ukulele.